Unusual baby names from Florida

In the 1970s, Everett H. Williams — director of the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Jacksonville, Florida — compiled lists of the most unusual baby names he saw on Florida birth certificates. Here’s a sampling:

  • 5/8 Jameson
  • Betty Burp
  • Bigamy and Larceny [twins]
  • Cancer
  • Candy Box
  • Cherry Pye
  • Cigar Stubbs
  • Crystal Chanderlier
  • Dor Bell
  • Easy Rider
  • End of the Line
  • First Time Benjamin
  • Florida Fellows
  • Full Dress Coat
  • Gospel Lilly Floweryvine Virgin Mary Lord Caroline
  • January Snow White
  • Kekoalauliionapalihauulioliokeloolau David Kaapuawaokamehameha
  • Lasagne
  • Lavoris
  • Looking at the Moon
  • Lucky Hippotamus
  • Mac Aroni
  • Pansy Flowers Greenwood
  • Prarie Totsiuia
  • Shantu Cantre
  • Silver Ware
  • Sky Rocket
  • Sports Model Higginbotham
  • Starlight Cauliflower Shaw
  • Strange Odor
  • Sweet Tart
  • Teflon
  • Tootsie Roll
  • Wedless Souvenir Campbell

I checked for some of these names in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) and discovered one more Lasagne, two more Cigars, two more Larcenys, eight more Gospels, and 17 more Stranges. I also spotted a Full Price (1912-1990), an Easy Fortune (1922-2009) and a Flowery Tutor (1890-1965).

Sources:

  • “Everett: what a name!” Miami News 13 Sept. 1973: 1.
  • “Speaking Of Names.” St. Joseph News-Press 5 Jul. 1970: 1.
  • “What’s in a Name?” Gadsden Times 23 May 1974: 3.
  • “What’s in a Name?” Ocala Star-Banner 16 May 1977: 2B.

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